Year:

Abstract:

• Why should the public care about the Smart Grid?
• Why is NIST involved in the Smart Grid Initiative?
• At the residential level, what is different about the Smart Grid?
• What sort of energy management will [Smart Grid] require of homeowners?
• Is it a challenge to get the various players to cooperate?
• Why do we need to spend so much to convert to a new system of electricity when we have a perfectly fine system now?
• Why is it important to be able to transmit electricity from one part of the country to another?
• How do electric cars fit into the Smart Grid equation?
• If we use coal to generate electricity for plug-in vehicles, we aren't really benefiting the environment, right?
• How does storage come into play?
• What are the challenges to be addressed over the next few years?
• Where is the money coming from to build the Smart Grid infrastructure?
• Is it a challenge to get the various players to cooperate?
• How significant is the Smart Grid to those working on it?